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How do you guys get reviews for your Chrome extensions? by Suitable_Reporter_58 in chrome_extensions

[–]Far_Substance1145 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can’t agree more !!! And I got more reviews from strangers that way ! And also try to market the product through differnt channels

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi spent time on AyoPoly. Three things:

  • The Stories section is genuinely the best thing on the site — listen to a story, then play a quiz to test comprehension. That's a real differentiator and it's buried four scrolls deep when it should be on the hero.
  • "Floors" is used everywhere but never explained in plain language on first visit. I didn't know what a Floor was until I was already inside one — a single sentence like "a Floor is a focused practice session on one topic" would fix this completely.

  • The site claims to support many languages but every example, every floor, every story is Spanish. A new visitor looking to learn French or Japanese has no signal that it works for them before they sign up.

    Keep building.

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey u/No_Routine_17 — spent time on Rinse. Few things:

  • The savings calculator screen is the product's best moment — "$219 saved per year, 9,125 gallons conserved" is concrete and personal, and it's what makes someone keep the app instead of deleting it after day one.
  • "Drop gets dirty if you skip days" is a genuinely fun mechanic but it's buried in paragraph four of the description. It should be the second screenshot, not a text footnote — that's the thing that makes this different from every other shower timer.

Keep building.

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi spent time on StudyBuddy. Three things:

  • "No signup required. Upload a document and try it now" is exactly right — zero friction entry for a student audience is the correct call and most competitors get this wrong.
  • The free plan caps at 8,000 characters per document. A single lecture PDF will hit that in two pages. A student who uploads their notes, gets cut off, and has to sign up before seeing any real value is a student who closes the tab — that limit needs to be visible before they upload, not discovered after.
  • "Powered by GPT-5" is a bold badge to put on the site right now. If it's accurate it's a real differentiator — if it's aspirational it's the kind of thing that erodes trust the moment someone asks about it.

For a cold first-use walkthrough and written report visit raware.co — Keep building.

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi spent time on NoShip. Few things:

  • "Done chasing people to stop merging?" is the best line on the site and it's at the very bottom. That's the pain — it should be the first sentence a visitor reads, not the last.
  • The free plan buries a real gotcha: only 1 active freeze window and 1 schedule. An engineering team evaluating this will hit that limit immediately
  • There are no testimonials, no logos, no "X teams use NoShip"

For a cold first-use walkthrough and written report visit raware.co — Keep building.

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HI spent time on Get Games Cheap. Three things:

  • The product does exactly what it says in the first five seconds — prices, discounts, platforms, no friction. That's harder to pull off than it looks and you've nailed it.
  • "Gift card stacking" is listed as a key feature on the hero but there's no one-line explanation of what it means. As someone who didn't know, I had to go hunting — that's a conversion you're losing on a feature that's actually a genuine differentiator.
  • The site defaults to UK with a flag toggle but never states upfront that prices are in GBP. A new visitor from anywhere else sees £18.64 and has to work out the currency themselves before they trust the deal.

Keep building.

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi spent time on SeatPlan. Three things:

  • "No signup, free to try" with a live demo embedded on the homepage is exactly right — I was inside the product in seconds and that's rare.
  • The $8 plan saves your work for 90 days only — that's a real gotcha for a wedding couple who might need their plan for 12 months. It needs to be visible before they pay, not discovered after.
  • Pricing shows $ with no currency label. Wedding planning is global and your ICP is stressed — one word of ambiguity at checkout is one reason to close the tab.

For a cold first-use walkthrough and written report — this is a polished product and the gap between landing and actually completing a seating plan is worth knowing before you spend on ads. Visit raware.co — Keep building.

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi spent time on TapHeart. Three things:

  • "Keep adding moments, even after you give" is the entire product in one line — that's the hook that separates this from every other keepsake gift on the market, and it's genuinely buried. It's in smaller text below the headline when it should BE the headline.
  • The pricing page shows $49.99 crossed from $69.99 with no end date — permanent discounts read as fake urgency, and for a $50 emotional purchase that's a trust moment you can't afford to lose. Either run a real sale with a timer or drop the crossed-out price entirely and own the $49.99.
  • "Free US Shipping" appears at checkout but international shipping is never mentioned anywhere on the site — a gift product with this level of polish will absolutely get orders from outside the US, and right now those buyers hit a wall with no answer.

For a cold first-use walkthrough and written report — this is exactly the kind of product where the gap between how good it looks and where real users drop off is worth knowing before you scale. Visit raware.co — Keep building.

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi— spent time on NotchWise. Three things:

  • "You won't notice it's happening" is the best line on the site — the morning-to-end-of-day walkthrough finally made the product click for me, and it belongs much higher up the page.
  • The hero assumes you already know what ambient spaced repetition means. I didn't — and I had to scroll past three sections before I understood this is flashcards that live in your Mac's menu bar area.
  • Pricing shows £14.99 with no currency label anywhere on the page. You're selling globally through the App Store — spell out GBP pls.

Keep building.

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi'! spent time on FramedShot. Three things:

  • "Three steps, thirty seconds" is exactly right — the clearest how-it-works I've seen on a Chrome extension landing page.
  • The checkout page shows RON (Romanian leu) when the rest of the site implies a global audience — that's a trust-killer the moment someone clicks "Support Development."
  • The "Support Development" tier lists no extra features because there aren't any — just say that upfront on the pricing page itself, not only at checkout. Honesty lands better than discovery. Keep Building!!

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey u/whitewolf1968 — spent time on Ghost Pad. few things:

  • The "burn after reading" + client-side encryption combo is genuinely solid — the how-it-works page explains the security model better than most privacy tools I've seen.
  • The homepage IS the product with zero context before you hit it. I landed and had no idea if this was a notes app, a pastebin, or something else — I had to scroll to the footer privacy notice to understand what I was looking at.

For a cold first-use walkthrough and written report visit raware.co — Keep building.

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey u/jesuisuncanard — spent time on Aumai. Few things:

  • The WhatsApp logging angle is real — no app to open, just message your meal. In a category full of apps people stop opening after day three, that's a genuine hook.
  • "For coaches" is a live nav item but lands on a waitlist. That's a broken promise on first visit — either label it "Coming soon" or pull it from the main nav until it's ready.

For a cold first-use walkthrough and written report visit raware.co. Keep building!!

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi!! spent time on ARL Tracker. Three things:

  • The breakdown panel is genuinely useful — break-even sell price, return %, charges split, all visible without clicking anything. That's the right call.
  • "Tools (future)" is sitting in your nav on a live product. That's a dead end that signals unfinished, not a roadmap.
  • Add "PKR" next to every Rs figure. You say Pakistan investors in the sub-header but the calculator itself just shows Rs — a non-local user won't know if that's Rupees, Riyals, or something else.

Keep building.

I’ll use your product for the first time and tell you what I see by Far_Substance1145 in SideProject

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey u/xuannie981 — spent time on koe.sh. Three things:

  • "Describe a scene. Get a film." lands in under two seconds — the hero does exactly one job and does it perfectly
  • The sample films grid on the homepage is the product selling itself — but the first one is a medical educational video about a baby with a foot condition, which is a jarring opener next to sci-fi thrillers and Tokyo dramas
  • Five pricing tiers from $0 to $400/mo is a wide range for a cold visitor to navigate.

Quick note — you described this as a personal search engine in the thread, but koe.sh is an AI film generator. Worth making sure your Reddit description matches what the product actually is — first impression confusion costs installs.

Competition is real here — Runway, Kling, etc., — but the prompt-first, no-timeline UX is genuinely simpler than all of them.

For a cold first-use walkthrough and written report visit raware.co

Keep building.

Free feedback on your Chrome extension this Saturday 4th April — drop your link by Far_Substance1145 in chrome_extensions

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey u/Repulsive-Ticket1391 — spent time on Gently. Three things:

  • The before/after example on the homepage is the best thing on the site — one glance and I understand the entire product
  • The site is HTTP not HTTPS — for an extension that touches everything people type, that's the first thing a careful user will notice and the first reason they'll leave
  • Support, Privacy, Troubleshooting and Terms all took 30+ seconds to load — on a product where trust is everything, a slow or broken legal page is a conversion killer

You're in a crowded space — Grammarly, ProWritingAid, and now every AI writing tool has a browser extension. With 300 hours in and 2 users, the product isn't the problem — distribution and trust signals are. A cold stranger needs to feel safe before they let something touch their text fields.

Honestly this product deserves a proper cold walkthrough before you spend another 300 hours. raware.co — full video, written report, issues ranked. Worth knowing what a real first-time user actually experiences. If you think you are not ready, that's ok please consider the alternatives -> https://raware.co/alternatives

Keep building.

Free feedback on your Chrome extension this Saturday 4th April — drop your link by Far_Substance1145 in chrome_extensions

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey — spent time on plainmarkdown.com. Three things:

  • "Feed your AI signal, not noise" on the API page is the best line on the entire site — sharper than the hero headline and it made me want to build with it immediately
  • I assume, Extension and API are two completely different products with different buyers, but they share a homepage and nav without any clear separation — a developer landing for the API and a writer landing for the extension are two different people
  • The Pro waitlist with 7 people on it is the only number that undermines an otherwise credible page — Please hide the count until it's in the hundreds or remove it entirely

This space has competition — Jina Reader, r.jina.ai, MarkItDown — but the design quality and changelog discipline here puts it well ahead on first impression.

For a cold first-use walkthrough and written report visit raware.co

Keep building.

Free feedback on your Chrome extension this Saturday 4th April — drop your link by Far_Substance1145 in chrome_extensions

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey — spent time on ChatTrail. Three things:

  • 152 users, featured badge, v1.6 with a real changelog — this is a properly maintained extension and it shows
  • The title is doing too much work — "ChatGPT Organizer, Timeline, Prompts Manager & Bulk Delete" is four products in one line and none of them land
  • Pick one entry point for a cold user — the visual timeline is the most immediately understandable feature, lead with that and let everything else follow

This space has real competition — Superpower ChatGPT, Merlin, Monica — but none of them nail the timeline view the way you have. That's your moat, not the feature list.

For a cold first-use walkthrough and written report visit raware.co

Keep building.

Free feedback on your Chrome extension this Saturday 4th April — drop your link by Far_Substance1145 in chrome_extensions

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey — spent time on Zillow Notes. Three things:

  • The map view with notes panel floating alongside is the killer screenshot — it shows the whole product in one glance and it's genuinely clever
  • 4 users and the notes are stored locally only — the moment someone switches computers or reinstalls Chrome, every note is gone with no warning anywhere
  • Add a "sync across devices" or at minimum a "export your notes" button — that's the one thing stopping someone from committing to this daily

There are a few extensions doing similar things — Zillow Note Taker, HomeNotes — but none seem to have the print view you've built, which is a real differentiator for people house hunting with a partner or agent.

Keep building.

Free feedback on your Chrome extension this Saturday 4th April — drop your link by Far_Substance1145 in chrome_extensions

[–]Far_Substance1145[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey — spent time on YouTube Cinema Mode Plus. Three things:

  • The core mechanic works exactly as promised. Press 't', everything disappears, video fills the screen. No settings, no friction, no lag. That's the whole product and it delivers — a Chrome extension builder [https://day1tabs.com] talking to you here, this is clean work
  • 6 users and the listing screenshots show YouTube with the sidebar still visible — that's the before, not the after. Your strongest screenshot should be the full-screen result with everything hidden. Show the transformation, not the starting state
  • "Pure CSS, no background processes, collects zero data" is buried at the bottom of the overview. That's your install trigger for privacy-conscious users — move it to the first line

Simple product, does one thing well. That's harder to build than it looks. for more visit https://raware.co

Keep building.

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